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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5054705" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>This needs repeating! BSK is telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth! Despite few wanting to believe this!</p><p>It's spot on!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Also, when BSK says "fully" mature buck, he's not talking about a 3 1/2-yr-old buck.</p><p>Not sure if BSK will agree, but to me "fully" mature begins at 5 1/2.</p><p></p><p>Add to the above reality that we hunters can be our own worse enemies when we "high grade" the antlers of our best young bucks, killing them at 2 1/2 & 3 1/2 (sometimes 4 1/2) before they can become a truly top-end "fully" mature buck.</p><p></p><p>Even with thousands of acres under good "management", few places anywhere in TN can produce many bucks breaking 150, with or without lots of food plots & supplemental feedings.</p><p></p><p>In fact, not even Tennessee's Ames' Plantation, with over 18,000 acres of intense deer management, great crops, great habitat, better soil than the "ridge & hollow" areas ---- still produces very few bucks scoring 150 or more.</p><p>It just ain't happening in Tennessee.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5054705, member: 1409"] This needs repeating! BSK is telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth! Despite few wanting to believe this! It's spot on! Also, when BSK says "fully" mature buck, he's not talking about a 3 1/2-yr-old buck. Not sure if BSK will agree, but to me "fully" mature begins at 5 1/2. Add to the above reality that we hunters can be our own worse enemies when we "high grade" the antlers of our best young bucks, killing them at 2 1/2 & 3 1/2 (sometimes 4 1/2) before they can become a truly top-end "fully" mature buck. Even with thousands of acres under good "management", few places anywhere in TN can produce many bucks breaking 150, with or without lots of food plots & supplemental feedings. In fact, not even Tennessee's Ames' Plantation, with over 18,000 acres of intense deer management, great crops, great habitat, better soil than the "ridge & hollow" areas ---- still produces very few bucks scoring 150 or more. It just ain't happening in Tennessee. [/QUOTE]
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